English
innumerability
Innumerability comes from Latin innumerābilitās ‘countlessness, innumerability, infinitude’, and goes back to numerābilis.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnumerābilis‘countable, numerable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinnumerābilis‘innumerable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinnumerābilitās‘countlessness, innumerability, infinitude’
- Englishearliest quotation 1622innumerability
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnumerābilis‘countable, numerable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinnumerābilis‘innumerable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinnumerābilitās‘countlessness, innumerability, infinitude’
- Englishearliest quotation 1622innumerability
Earliest quotation: 1622, Martin Fotherby: “Thus he reiecteth this innumerability of Causes”.
Every English word from Latin numerābilis
Today it means
noun The state of being innumerable.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin numerābilis / innumerability